we have $150 billion that corporations do in tax expenditures to avoid the tax rates. so their tax rate on average is 16%, not 35%. but that's inefficient. we have to do what matt said, and tax people efficiently. if you go back to world war ii and take all the years since then, when our tax rate was 70% in the 50s and you look at periods with more than 38%, we had an employment rate that grew of .5%. when the tax rate was -- excuse me -- was 2%. when the tax rate went down to 38% or below, we grew at five%. my point is this is not taxes. what is key, let's take murderrive and regalations on businesses, they have increased. if they are paying 33% more for regulations per individual, you are not opening up the line for that star runningback to get through. i understand the simplified tax rate form. but it is focusing on small businesses and giving them the opportunity with trained, skilled workforce, not that much reg iewdle, to burst through the line. that's where the focus should be. >> eric: matt, last word? >> you gotta do something. here's -- once again, when a pre